Lair of the Eldritch Dark — Clark Ashton Smith

Lair of the Eldritch Dark gathers many of Clark Ashton Smith's classic tales of fantasy and horror—along with his ethereal poetry and prose poems—together in one wide-ranging volume of speculative fantastical fiction and verse.A great friend of H. P. Lovecraft and a contemporary of Robert E. Howard, Smith's vivid imagination and unique antiheroes created worlds that pushed the accepted boundaries of both realism and fantasy, ushering in new ways of writing while challenging readers to think differently.Smith's wide-ranging influence is still felt strongly today. His enthusiastic readers went on to build and mold the genres of fantasy, horror, and SF as we know them. Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Jack Vance, Leigh Brackett, Harlan Ellison, and George R. R. Martin among many others were influenced by Smith's otherworldly, visionary fiction.The following books, stories, poems, and prose poems are included in Lair of the Eldritch Dark:Books of Poetry and Prose Poems:The Star-Treader and Other PoemsEbony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and ProseShort Stories:Averoigne:The Colossus of YlourgneThe Disinterment of VenusMother of ToadsThe Enchantress of SylaireA Rendezvous In AveroigneHyperborea:The Door to SaturnThe Seven GeasesThe Tale of Satampra ZeirosPoseidonis:AtlantisFrom a Letter/Muse of AtlantisThe Death of MalygrisThe Double ShadowMaal Dweb of Xiccarph:The Maze of Maal DwebThe Flower-WomenAihai/Mars:VulthoomZothique:The Weaver in the VaultThe Witchcraft of UluaThe Charnel GodThe Tomb-SpawnXeethraThe Dark EidolonNecromancy in NaatThe Black Abbot of PuthuumThe Death of IlalothaThe Garden of AdomphaThe Master of the CrabsMorthyllaThe Last HieroglyphOther Short Stories:The Ghost of Mohammed DinThe MahoutPrince Alcouz and the MagicianThe Raja and the TigerSomething NewThe Planet of the DeadThe Demon of the FlowerThe Chain of AforgomonThe Devotee of EvilOther Poetry:AdventureAfterwardsAlienageApologiaAugustAutumn OrchardsAutumn's PallThe BarrierBrumalThe City of the TitansContradictionDepartureDon Juan SingsDream MysteryDualityThe End of AutumnForgotten SorrowThe HorizonInterrogationThe Love-PotionMoon-DawnMoonlightNyctalopsOugabalysPsalm to the DesertRemembranceThe SecretSeleniqueSemblanceThe Song of AviolThe Song of CarthaSong of the NecromancerTo the ChimeraThe UnrememberedA ValedictionWe Shall MeetThe Wind and the MoonThe Wingless ArchangelsWitch-DanceThe Witch with Eyes of AmberYou are not BeautifulLuna AeternalisOther Prose Poetry:The Lake of Enchanted SilenceTo the DaemonEpigrams:Abandoned Plum-Orchard.Cats in Winter SunlightTranslations:Parisian Dream by Charles BaudelaireAlchemy of Sorrow by Charles BaudelaireThe OwlsThis book also includes numerous illustrations by Smith for reader enjoyment.